Simon Sellars: Sleepy Brain Archives

Wednesday, Jun 13th, 2007 at 1:27 am

Brit Blog: On the Way

‘Hey now, baby, I’m beginning to see the light…’ The author, waiting to go through customs, ponders the notion of ‘flightless travel’ (photo: Simon Sellars 2007).
At one stage I used to listen to people whingeing about long plane flights and think they were dullards with no imagination, that I was above them (literally) because I […]

Thursday, Apr 1st, 2004 at 1:01 pm

Gloria Dixon: High Strangeness

Gloria Dixon is Director of Investigations with BUFORA, the British UFO Research Organisation. She co-ordinates all reports that come into BUFORA, passing them on to teams of investigators throughout the UK.
Although BUFORA is now in its 40th year, building a reputation for solid research in the field of ufology, it has had its share of […]

Friday, Feb 20th, 2004 at 1:54 pm

In All Tonality: Godsheads Revisited

by Brett Hale

image by Vasilios Billy Mavreas
WARNING:
The tamper-proof grog-doggerel has no new master,
but a stronger, longer leash
So they’re out there after all,
imperious impersonators aside
(Elvis being responsible for more
than just Rock ‘n’ Roll);
the alien life forms are in positions
to influence and sustain
the Military-Industrial complex.
Careerists,
they have no plans to take over,
only the theatre of war allows […]

Thursday, Jan 15th, 2004 at 1:47 pm

Roswell

by Dennis McDade

images by Billy Vasilios Mavreas
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DRAGGING A COMET TAIL OF RED DIRT, the battered El Camino left the narrow road with a groan of tortured metal. Sailing over a barbed wire fence, it came to rest in a shallow pond of stagnant water. After a few weak sputters, the fatigued engine fell silent as […]

Thursday, Oct 2nd, 2003 at 4:11 pm

Speaking of the Supernatural, Parts 11, 12 & 13

by Sarah Endacott

image by Greg Serafin
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A Little Girl
music
(noises)
a priest
the family car
(under the house)
a funny smell
(thousands of years)
physically impossible
restless

(a dream)
delicate instruments
World War Two
(the original owners)
the sudden appearance of
her brother
damp spots
(children)
telephone calls
(the answers)
a normal life again
vanished
Contact
the lake
(chandeliers)
crash site
(laughing)
the government department
a letter
(this very room)
their birthplace
all three
(time)
changed the course
of HUMAN history
messages
(a cover-up)
bruises
exactly the same spot
electricity
the bible
The Expert
identical twins
(an uncanny
resemblance)
a […]

Friday, Aug 15th, 2003 at 11:06 pm

Earth is the Alien Planet: An Afrofuturist Discussion

“Afrofuturism” is a long-standing internet discussion group – a listserv – now housed on Yahoo. Its members include renowned author Nalo Hopkinson, DJ Spooky and cybernetic researcher Ron Eglash. According to its web site, the listserv’s main focus is the exploration of “futurism” as a recurring motif in the work of black cultural producers. Science […]

Wednesday, Aug 6th, 2003 at 9:25 pm

Junichi Kato: Telepathic Eyes

Japanese culture, it would seem, has always contained a rich vein of magic, mysticism and mind power running through its myths and legends. Is there any connection between this tradition and modern-day UFO sightings? According to Junichi Kato, Director of OUR-J (The Organisation of UFO Research, Japan), there is.
OUR-J’s web site documents some interesting parallels […]

Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2003 at 9:11 pm

Ross Dowe: Black-Secret Technology

Interview by Symon Brando

Wack-O: Ross Dowe Self-Portrait
Ross Dowe is the manager of Australia’s “National UFO Hotline”, based in Narre Warren, Victoria. There used to be other hotlines available for people to report UFO sightings, but they all seem to have fallen by the wayside – except Dowe’s. As a result, whenever the mass media reports […]

Monday, Mar 17th, 2003 at 10:01 pm

A Threshold Moment: Ross Dowe and the UFOs that Ate My Mind

by Symon Brando

All images by Nadia Agnew
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ONE OF THE MOST ENDURING MEMORIES I have of my dear old Mum concerns a “tall tale” she used to tell me. It was about her apparent childhood “out-of-body” experiences. She said that when she was six, she would often be lying in bed, and the next thing she […]

Saturday, Jan 11th, 2003 at 1:50 am

You’ll Regret It When We Find the Brain-Tape

by Simone Dawson-Walker

image by Vasilios Billy Mavreas
You’ll come around
to our way of thinking
When we find it again
In the fridge
In the CIA shooting-range lodge
When Illuminati
Find the brain-tape in the fridge
You’ll come around
HA!
EAT!
Philosophy hardens the arteries